Co-creating Democratic Legitimacy: Potentials and Pitfalls
Peer reviewed, Journal article
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2987795Utgivelsesdato
2021-12-14Metadata
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https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997211061740Sammendrag
The aim of the article is to discuss how and to what extent co-creation has the capacity to strengthen democratic legitimacy. By distinguishing between output-based and input-based co-creation, and by discussing types of legitimacy in relation to deliberative, participatory, and representative conceptions of democracy, the article points to potentials and pitfalls inherent in the idea of co-creation. Four examples from Denmark and Norway are used to illustrate the argument. In conclusion, the article points to main challenges associated with co-creation which deserves more research—particularly inequality of individual resources and the clash with the party-political system.